[Infowarrior] - Rep Rogers 'links' Snowden to Crimea

[Richard Forno]

Once again, Rep Mike Rogers is demonstrating that he is full of something or other …. but certainly not facts or a grasp of reality.  Sheer speculation on his behalf, as usual.     —rick

Snowden 'supporting, in an odd way,' Russia's Crimea incursion, Rogers says

By ERIC BRADNER 
3/23/14 10:59 AM EDT

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2014/03/snowden-supporting-in-an-odd-way-russias-crimea-incursion-185571.html

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is pinning some blame for Russia’s incursion into Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula on Edward Snowden.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he believes there is “good evidence” that the former National Security Agency contractor hasn’t told the truth about his activities in Hong Kong and Moscow – and that Snowden had earlier help from Russian intelligence operatives than he has previously admitted.

“I do believe there’s more to this story,” Rogers said. “He is under the influence of Russian intelligence officials today. He’s actually supporting, in an odd way, this very activity of brazen brutality and expansionism of Russia. He needs to understand that.”

He didn’t elaborate on what he sees as Snowden’s connection to the standoff between Russia and western countries over Crimea.

Rogers said “every counterintelligence official” believes Snowden is now working with those Russian officials, and that the question is: “Was he interested in cooperating earlier than the timeline would suggest?”

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